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EARLY USE OF BUFFALO ROADS
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road which the buffaloes have beaten, spacious enough for two wagons to go abreast, and leading straight into the Lick. It appears that there are vast quantities of these bones lying five or six feet under ground, which we discovered in the bank, at the edge of the Lick. We found here two tusks above six feet long; we carried one, with some other bones, to our boats, and set off."[1]

"Monday, Oct. 17th, 1785. Here Mr. Zane found the drove of Buffaloes which he pursued; they took up this creek to the licks. Here are large roads to the licks. Below this creek is a large bottom of fine timber. Three miles down Mr. Zane killed a fine buffalo, which induced me to encamp."[2]

Another historian, after describing the bold attack of the British and Indian horde on Bryant's Station, speaks of the route of the retreating army and its pursuers:

"It was not difficult to find the road on which the departing enemy had marched.

  1. Croghan's Journal, "The Olden Time," vol. i., pp. 407–408.
  2. Gen. Butler's Journal, "The Olden Time," vol. ii. p. 450.